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- Title
Disability Discrimination in the Italian Rental Housing Market: A Field Experiment with Blind Tenants.
- Authors
Fumarco, Luca
- Abstract
I test discrimination against blind tenants assisted by guide dogs in the Italian rental housing market by using fake application letters. I compare three fictitious household tenants: married couples, married couples where the wife is blind and owns a guide dog, and married couples where the normal-sighted wife owns a normal dog. I find that the households with a blind wife are invited less often to visit apartments they applied for, because of the presence of their guide dog; using the language of Italian and E.U. laws, this behavior is called indirect discrimination against disabled people. This result is robust.
- Subjects
ROME; RENTAL housing; HOUSING discrimination; MARRIED people; PEOPLE with disabilities; APARTMENTS; ACCOUNTING
- Publication
Land Economics, 2017, Vol 93, Issue 4, p567
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3368/le.93.4.567